Piano Culture in 19th-Century Paris

Edited by Massimiliano Sala

Book cover: Piano Culture in 19th-Century Paris

Extent: 425 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: French Studies, Music & Performing Arts, Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Speculum musicae

Series volume number: 26

Language: English, French, Italian

Hardback (Published)

(March 2015)

ISBN: 9782503553269

8.27 x 10.59 inches

Price: $163.00

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The volume aims to investigate the world of the piano in France, and the evolution of the instrument between the ancien regime and the Restoration. Particular attention will be devoted to the circulation of central European pianists at the turn of the nineteenth century, their influence on the development of piano culture and technique and the impact this had on French musical tastes. Nineteen contributions will explore the piano industry, aspects of performance practice and the bravura tradition, and will investigate certain lines of interaction between publishers, composers, institutions and concert venues between the French Revolution and the first Industrial Revolution. The ultimate aim will be to determine more comprehensively the role of piano culture within nineteenth-century Parisian musical life.

Massimiliano Sala is Vice President of the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca) and Secretary Treasurer of the Italian National Edition of Pietro Antonio Locatelli’s Complete Works. On the Board of the Scholarly Committees of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works and Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Complete Works, he is a founder of Ad Parnassum Journal. His publications include writings on eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries music.

  • Edited by Massimiliano Sala